I can't wait to see how the Bluesky community reacts to the Neil Gaiman allegations after everything you kids have all had to learn recently about the cost of disbelieving an accuser simply because you like the accused.
I think it's just another bit of proof that we shouldn't idolise people just because they did a thing we appreciate once. It's just another one of 2014 tumblr's worse contributions to the world.
I've been a Neil Gaiman fan my entire life, he's been incredibly influential to my own work. He can also go eat shit and should own up to what he did. I'm perfectly capable of holding both these truths, so anyone who makes excuses for him can go fuck themselves.
I feel for his partner - who I assume was blindsided by these revelations - who released a song about the predatory Harvey Weinstein in 2019. (My daughter was in her music video.)
We just have to separate art and artists cause they are ppl and most suck ass and the more influence u have the easier it is to get away with stuff cause you’re famous. We can still like the art and not the artist when we find out terrible things about them.
I'm going with 'fuck that guy'. It sucks when someone whose work we like turns out to be a shitty person but if we want a less-shit world then we have to deliver the consequences for their behaviour.
Gaiman's work is something I've always adored, but I've always held off a bit on the man himself, at least in the last ten years or so. Rubs me up the wrong way a bit the way he interacts online.
I keep seeing people vaguely alluding to him doing something on my TL but no one has actually said what to who ._.;. I assume its sexual assault but any other context is missing.
Parts of Sandman are integral to helping me mourn my dead sibling, who was almost certainly trans but never felt able to share that fully with anyone.
Gaiman can absolutely get fucked, he's dead to me.
I haven't personally seen anyone defending him and that I've noticed myself that Gaiman who used to be an extremely prolific poster here has suddenly gotten a lot more quiet. The joke of a denial he published doesn't do him any favors either.